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to love us. that's a long term project, and generally, a futile project. it's much more important to do as president obama said right in the beginning from the inaugural speech that we need to focus on mutual interest and mutual respect, and there are many things that we can get done in that fashion. i think that discretionary -- diplomacy 230e cueses on specific, strategic goals, and if it failed in any way in the last several decades, it's been that it's not focused on those goals. >> i'm in agreement with jim on this issue. it's note a population contest, but it's absolutely the wrong -- the results are not great results if that's the measurement. one of the things that we tried to do, again, building on the base that jim and his team put in place was to be sure that everything we were doing in public diplomacy actually was designed to support the achievement of the goals, objecteddives, and be clear and precise in doing that. there are many areas where we do -- have not just given up the ship
to love us. that's a long term project, and generally, a futile project. it's much more important to do as president obama said right in the beginning from the inaugural speech that we need to focus on mutual interest and mutual respect, and there are many things that we can get done in that fashion. i think that discretionary -- diplomacy 230e cueses on specific, strategic goals, and if it failed in any way in the last several decades, it's been that it's not focused on those goals. >>...
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just one on our game in india that helps us all to understand us. the good thing about cricket is it's not a single game. it's many games. we want to play fast forward, we turn to t20 cricket, but the diplomatic game is the test match. it goes across five days. it's hard for any game to cross five days, but indians and brit ire are good at it. we're trying to teach the australians -- [laughter] >> final word. >> hard to follow the cricket, but what i say in closing is the chinese strategy is focused on internal challenges as a huge emerging middle class ignited by some democratic momentum come in, but extermly they continue to look for energy as the ambassador has said, meaning they have to engage with the system of the world, and we hope that it is a positive engagement and a constructive one, and not one that brings more conflict around the globe. >> i apologize for the many of you who had questions that we could not get to. hopefully we'll continue during coffee. let us all thank the ambassador, under secretary of defense, james miller, and vice
just one on our game in india that helps us all to understand us. the good thing about cricket is it's not a single game. it's many games. we want to play fast forward, we turn to t20 cricket, but the diplomatic game is the test match. it goes across five days. it's hard for any game to cross five days, but indians and brit ire are good at it. we're trying to teach the australians -- [laughter] >> final word. >> hard to follow the cricket, but what i say in closing is the chinese...
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box them in, use the power of the presidency. the question is has he built a new set of skills and tools that he'll use, and i think we're going to see in the next couple months. it's a big time for him. david, both in your book and in a recent op-ed piece, you asked the question what really drives them? what is the -- is that right -- give us a -- i mean, that seems to be the theme of the book. what is driving this guy, and it's a bit of an open question. what do you think you are seeing now as the driving motivations? >> well, i wrote about this last week in terms of the second term, and i think the drive now is greatness. i think he has the opportunity for that. that doesn't mean he'll reach it, but, you know, even as the second term often creates unexpected problems and a lame duck atmosphere that can devolve, couldn't have had the chance of greatness without the second term, and i think that as you watched him in the first term, as ron and john captured, he was in a learning process. there's many times in that period where h
box them in, use the power of the presidency. the question is has he built a new set of skills and tools that he'll use, and i think we're going to see in the next couple months. it's a big time for him. david, both in your book and in a recent op-ed piece, you asked the question what really drives them? what is the -- is that right -- give us a -- i mean, that seems to be the theme of the book. what is driving this guy, and it's a bit of an open question. what do you think you are seeing now...
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thank you all for joining us today. [applause] admiral johnathan grew up in pittsburgh suburb of butler pennsylvania. the son of a steel workers he was the third of six children. he was the all-american kid growing up. he worked not one paper route, but two. he was on the swim team, student counsel, a member of the national honor society, and the archery club. and to top it all off, he and his buddes were members of the major key club. a group that offered them to earn a few bucks either by selling hot dogs or waiting on folks at rotary club dinners. accepted a the university of pennsylvania, the military academy of west point and the united states naval academy. he made the smart choice and choose the navel academy. there he studied nuclear power to serve as sub mean officer. flip over the book from 1975 and you'll find a few tid bib -- tidbits. it distribution him as rebelling usely -- color weekend, it concludes with his personality, good looks, and quick wit. he's bound to be a success. coming from a navy family, i
thank you all for joining us today. [applause] admiral johnathan grew up in pittsburgh suburb of butler pennsylvania. the son of a steel workers he was the third of six children. he was the all-american kid growing up. he worked not one paper route, but two. he was on the swim team, student counsel, a member of the national honor society, and the archery club. and to top it all off, he and his buddes were members of the major key club. a group that offered them to earn a few bucks either by...
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the pakistanis also as a narrative which is the americans use us and discard us. they use is against the russians in the 1980s and tossed us out ostensibly because of nuclear proliferation in 1990. they used us in the war after 9/11 and that after 2014 they will go way. the pakistanis thinks americans are hardwired to desert them. this set of stereotypes is intellectually lazy and very pernicious. one way to get out of this would need what husain haqqani my counterpart, suggested or with others who shall rename nameless facet in the press is time for containment and to push this away. those two are think are not reasonable alternatives. remaining engaged with pakistan, there is no alternative to it but i would argue that having a focus strictly on the bilateral relationship is something that has been a problem for us. what we need to do is break out of this bilateralism, this sterile debate and look at the issues that have to do with pakistan's relationship to india the issues that have to do with the sequence of events that will take place after 2014 when the ame
the pakistanis also as a narrative which is the americans use us and discard us. they use is against the russians in the 1980s and tossed us out ostensibly because of nuclear proliferation in 1990. they used us in the war after 9/11 and that after 2014 they will go way. the pakistanis thinks americans are hardwired to desert them. this set of stereotypes is intellectually lazy and very pernicious. one way to get out of this would need what husain haqqani my counterpart, suggested or with others...
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democrats want us to work together. they want to balance the approach to everything, but especially the situation we have dealing with the huge deficit and taxes are a part of that. >> espn programming is good because they try to cover both sides of the issues and the moderators especially on the "washington journal" do a good job of staying detached and not getting into offering their opinions. they're very comprehensive about covering both the house and the senate and the other woodrow wilson and other republicans here in d.c. that i wouldn't normally be exposed to. >> chinese president, hu jintao, addressed members of this congress. he's stepping down after 10 years in office. this event, courtesy of china central television, commonly known as cctv is just over nine minutes. [speaking chinese] >> translator: now on behalf of the chinese committee, the national congress party of china. my copies of the reports have been issued to you. i will outline its main points. [speaking chinese] transcode the 18th national congr
democrats want us to work together. they want to balance the approach to everything, but especially the situation we have dealing with the huge deficit and taxes are a part of that. >> espn programming is good because they try to cover both sides of the issues and the moderators especially on the "washington journal" do a good job of staying detached and not getting into offering their opinions. they're very comprehensive about covering both the house and the senate and the...
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tell us what happened. tell us what happened to your district or what kind of shape kind of shape is that it? >> it is the non-subtly devastating to new york in to my district in the region as a whole. wind and flooding caused the largest storm related outage. there's well over 200,000 people without power in lower manhattan they restored power to 2000 throughout new york, roughly 100,000 people in brooklyn and queens have no power, but they are working hard. we have the worst conditions ever in the 108th year public system. the tunnels under water, response has been extra area from the president and all of the secretaries. they are sending down over 200 pounds, generators to help remove the water, salt water from the subway system so they can ascertain the damage and start to brochure services. they are partial, small service, but the tunnels connecting manhattan and queens are still flooded. u.s. -- we've reported over 24 people dead. that is not an estimated 61 nationwide, two of the largest hospitals, b
tell us what happened. tell us what happened to your district or what kind of shape kind of shape is that it? >> it is the non-subtly devastating to new york in to my district in the region as a whole. wind and flooding caused the largest storm related outage. there's well over 200,000 people without power in lower manhattan they restored power to 2000 throughout new york, roughly 100,000 people in brooklyn and queens have no power, but they are working hard. we have the worst conditions...
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but they use boats to attack us. they use private planes to kill us. at the end of the day, we're in a war, the outcome does matter, and i want to win this war. i know everybody in this body wants to win this war. i want to live within our values. i'll work with you and senator mccain to say, even though we're fighting the worst people on the planet, count me out when it comes to waterboarding. people on my side, i remember and i understand them very well, why do you care about what we do to these people? they'll cut our heads off because we're americans. it's not necessary to win the war to go down that road. and, quite frankly, ladies and gentlemen, the opposite is true. you can't win this war if you don't realize you're in a war. we're not fighting common crime. we're fighting a vicious enemy. we can do it within our values. we can do it in due process, consistent with the law of war. and when we get in that criminal arena, consistent with criminal law. and as much as i disagree with this president, i will not deny him the ability that every command
but they use boats to attack us. they use private planes to kill us. at the end of the day, we're in a war, the outcome does matter, and i want to win this war. i know everybody in this body wants to win this war. i want to live within our values. i'll work with you and senator mccain to say, even though we're fighting the worst people on the planet, count me out when it comes to waterboarding. people on my side, i remember and i understand them very well, why do you care about what we do to...